The duo.
Trailing Seeds is first and foremost the story of an encounter between two very different paths, that ended up being complimentary:
Clio, a market gardener and anthropologist close to her roots, and active in various projects within the belgian civil society.
Olivia, a development project evaluator and food security analyst, with a tendency for global adventures.
Together, they affix two different prisms on the world that surrounds them, and particularly focus on the tools that permaculture offers for their respective professional domain.
Hello, I'm Clio
I work in agriculture and permaculture projects (including a little bit of eco-construction), mainly as a vegetable/fruit small producer.
I have just finished my permaculture design course in Belgium with an organization called “Cense-equi-voc” (Sept 2012-June 2013). Before this course, I undertook a professional training in market gardening and vegetable/fruit production (from March 2012 to Sept 2012), which I combined with a 4 month- wwoofing experience in Savoy (France).
I am currently working with a farmer in Belgium specialized in small fruit biological production, and I volunteer in community projects dedicated to eco-constructions and agricultural projects.
I dedicate my skills to sustainable and ecological agriculture, whose synergies I am interested in.
As part of my first studies, I also obtained a degree in anthropology (from the ULB, a University in Brussels), which I completed while taking care of educational projects with children from 8 to 12.
I speak intermediate English, Dutch and Spanish.
Hello, I'm Olivia
I have studied and worked in development and conflict resolution for the past 6 years. I am keen on analyzing the political economy of conflicts, with a special focus on food security issues and resource-induced conflicts.
I have worked in the Middle East, Latin America and the Horn of Africa with NGOs, with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and for consultancy companies. I have worked alongside community groups in conflict-affected zones to find ways towards empowerment, capacity-building and food security enhancement.
I would now like to turn to pragmatic tools that can be adapted in development projects. Permaculture strikes me as an effective tool in development and poverty emancipation projects. Since it is based on experimentatinon , knowledge and sharing practices and human exchanges, it is coherent with the preservation of environmental and human resources, as well as the regeneration of socio-economic and cultural dynamics around production and consumption.
I speak English, French as well as Spanish, Italian, and Arabic.
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